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Stereochrome rolled 1 100-sided dice:
85
Total: 85 (1-100)
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 Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:07 pm
Character || Vodyanoi
Stage || Rogue
Crafting || Vest
Crafting Stat || 27
Difficulty || 7
Roll Needed || 50-100
Rolled || 85
Outcome || Success
Experience earned || 7 x 6, /2 = 21
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:18 pm
He did, eventually, give in and sulk up to Eilin for sewing lessons. To his surprise, she didn’t laugh him off… but to be honest, he wasn’t quite sure why he thought she would. He supposed he still had some of the doubts clouding around him from back when he was younger, and had had to practically beg to be admitted into the troupe. Back then, the others would laugh at him for just about anything, and being an impressionable youngster he had taken it all to heart. He’d gotten to believing that he was clumsy, awkward and talent-less, even though he had never thought himself to be anything of the sort prior to his travels in Matori.
But these days… well, these days he was just another member of the troupe, and one who was quickly earning the respect of his fellows (or so he liked to think, at least). So Eilin just looked him over, heard out his vest idea, and shrugged her shoulders.
“Sure. I’ve got some cloth for that. Sit down right here.”
She motioned for him to sit, then pulled over her big basket of sewing supplies. Then, step-by-step, she told him how to cut the cloth, and how to hold the needle for stretching. Sometimes she would reach out and adjust his hands this way or that, but for the most part she kept to verbal instructions. In fact, after the first little while, when he started getting used to the whole ordeal, she picked up her own skirt and worked on it alongside him.
A few of the other performers walked by and teased him for doing this sort of ‘delicate’ work -- but Vodyanoi, encouraged by his apparent success, shrugged them off. Tailoring was a good skill to learn, he decided, for that way he would be able to make himself special costumes for performances. He thought about this plan as he stitched out his vest, and some time before dinner he was able to slip into the thing and try it on. Not bad!
words: 342
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Stereochrome rolled 2 100-sided dice:
96, 6
Total: 102 (2-200)
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:27 pm
Customizing || Vest
Skill Stat || 27
Luck Stat || 25
Item Durability || 10
Rolls Needed || [range] 60, 70
Rolled || 96, 6
Outcome || fail
Resulting Item Tier || -
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Stereochrome rolled 2 100-sided dice:
54, 78
Total: 132 (2-200)
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:31 pm
Customizing || Vest
Skill Stat || 27
Luck Stat || 25
Item Durability || 10
Rolls Needed || [range] 60, 70
Rolled || 58, 72
Outcome || fail (so close!)
Resulting Item Tier || -
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:37 pm
Of course, a simple vest was not enough to satisfy the ever-ornamented Vodyanoi. Although Eilin advised him against trying anything too complicated, he set out to try and decorate it with some of the fine thread and ribbon she had in her basket. His plan was to line the edges with the ribbon so as to give it some contrast, and then perhaps but in some ornamental stitching around the shoulders and on the yoke. Perhaps he’d also sew on some shiny little trinkets -- he had seen all sorts of interesting things in the town marketplace, little shimmery things that the Oban nobles liked to add to their elaborate attire.
He shouldn’t have bothered with all the planning, though. Eilin was right -- getting the decorations right was a whole other matter. The ribbon wouldn’t stay on properly at all, for one. It kept bending and wrinkling as he tried to stitch it on, like some angry serpentine animal. And when he tried to create some designs with the thread, all he managed to do was to get it all bunched up where it didn’t need to be -- it didn’t look like anything at all!
“Ugh.” He huffed, tossing the ruined vest in among the wash-rags. That wreck was better used to clean the sand off a drum!
word count: 217
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